I think it was the book that set me on a lifelong love affair with science fiction. I was probably only five or six when I got it from the class library.

OT but also on-topic, “13" was originally marketed as “Black Man” in the UK, but changed in the U.S. because it was felt too on-the-nose about racism. Also a great book, btw.

This movie makes it impossible to greenlight a Black Widow origin movie. They just took the space. Any origin story now would come across as hopelessly derivative.

I know we all get to decide, but it’s amazing how you get attached to one standard. Thanks to being raised in the U.K., for me the collective noun will always be “Lego”; if you need a plural form for some reason, use “Lego bricks”. I’ve lived in the U.S. for a long time now, but still the use of “Legos” grates on me…

You’re conflating oral healthcare with cosmetic dentistry. There’s a much greater emphasis on cosmetics here in the U.S. I’m a Brit who has lived in the U.S. for the last 18 years, and am still self-conscious about my teeth.

To be fair, Trump and Moore sound neither sorry nor contrite.

The Republican would also have denied it ever happened, threatened to sue the accuser, and probably thrown in some slut-shaming for good measure.

Without hyperbole, an organization that is helping a criminal avoid the consequences of his crime is enabling him to commit more crimes. I would have thought that, in and of itself, was criminal. If you do it more than once, it’s even worse, of course, but once should be enough.

In addition, according to other…

The invocation of faith in these situations always pisses me off. It’s there because he wants us to believe that his faith makes him a better person (specifically, a better person than someone of no faith).

The only god that Trump has ever sincerely worshipped is Mammon.

It’s so public now that he’d be insane to sue her for breaking the NDA. His reputation is in tatters, he’s toxic, but he can still make it worse by suing her. He wouldn’t be able to go out in public again (even assuming he stays out of jail).

I came here just to look at the photos posted by the commenters!

It still blows my mind how successful Trump was at that. A hereditary billionaire who lives in a literal gold tower becomes the champion of the common man? I don’t want to blame them for being fooled by a con man, but it’s hard not to be reminded of this:

Snoke could have been talking to Rey.

She’s right. They knowingly enabled a sexual predator. There’s no-one else in the company who could do that without being fired.

-400F isn’t a useful unit...anyone who cares is forced to go to Google to translate it straight to Kelvin. At least use both.

Agreed - you could put being against gay marriage in that category, too.

I think he’s referring to the generals he’s given jobs to, and he’s presumably extracted promises of loyalty (the ones he was unable to get from Comey), so they are, indeed, “his” generals. Not at all sinister that the military should be loyal to him personally, and not to the United States.

So, all the cops are replicants and Jared Leto controls them?

That’s just Judge Death with a better manicurist.